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Backstagevsmovel

Two self-hosted projects, compared on the numbers selfhost.directory tracks live: score, popularity, release cadence and setup effort.

Backstagemovel
Score78/10035/100
Rank in category#8 of 166 in Developer Tools#40 of 44 in Dashboard
GitHub stars34 732157
Stars, last 30 days+50—
Stable releases, 12 months140
Latest releasev1.57.0-next.0 · 27 Oct 2026—
SetupAdvancedAdvanced
Official Docker imageNoNo
LicenseApache-2.0MIT
Main languageTypescriptCoffeeScript

Which one should you pick?

Backstage scores 78/100 against 35/100 for movel, so it is the safer default.

Backstage ships more often: 14 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for movel.

Backstage is growing faster right now (+50 stars in 30 days).

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